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Responding to COVID-19 presents unprecedented challenges for public sector practitioners. Addressing those challenges requires knowledge about the problems that public sector workers face. This Viewpoint essay argues that timely, up-to-date surveys of public sector workers are essential tools for identifying problems, resolving bottlenecks, and enabling public sector workers to operate effectively during and in response to the challenges posed by the pandemic. This essay presents the COVID-19 Survey of Public Servants, which is currently being rolled out in several countries by the Global Survey of Public Servants Consortium to assist governments in strategically compiling evidence to operate effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Comitês Consultivos , Bioética , Clonagem de Organismos/legislação & jurisprudência , Pesquisas com Embriões/legislação & jurisprudência , Política Pública , Clonagem de Organismos/ética , Pesquisas com Embriões/ética , Ética em Pesquisa , Regulamentação Governamental , Humanos , Princípios Morais , Responsabilidade Social , Transplante de Células-Tronco/ética , Transplante de Células-Tronco/legislação & jurisprudência , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Social capital is important to the efficient functioning of modern economies and is the sine qua non of stable liberal democracy. It constitutes the cultural component of modern societies, which in other respects have been organized since the Enlightenment on the basis of formal institutions, the rule of law, and rationality. Building social capital has typically been seen as a task for "second generation" economic reform; but unlike economic policies or even economic institutions, social capital can not be so easily created or shaped by public policy. This paper define social capital, explore its economic and political functions, as well as its origins and make some suggestions for can it be cultivated.
